Etymologies

Examples

Amidst the witches and the former madams, the too-damn high guy and the Nazi reenactor, the demon sheep and the Aqua creep, there is finally some rational conversation this election season about the issues that really matter.

But there is a competing line of thought that the DCCC should use its independent expenditure budget to attack the unorthodox backgrounds of a few GOP candidates -- Nazi reenactor, witchcraft practitioner, an alleged murder, etc. -- and build a case that many Republican candidates are outside the mainstream.

But so many other associations -- regional, romantic, nostalgic, military interest -- hover around the gray ranks of the people refighting the War of Northern Aggression, that if Iott had acknowledged only that he was a Confederate reenactor, we might not have blinked an eye.